The forecast was not accurate at all. Before going to bed, Xu Lei deliberately checked the weather with his mobile phone, which turned to cloudy.

After being awakened by the crackling sound of raindrops from the colored steel roof in the middle of the night, he hurriedly put on his clothes, not even caring about the raincoat, and went out to go straight to the chicken coop a few meters away.

After checking the ventilation equipment, he also looked into the peach woods next to him with his headlight, and caught the firewood chickens living on the branches and sent them back to the chicken coop.

Free-range firewood chickens are wild-minded and like to live on trees and sleep at night. Even if it is windy or rainy, they don’t know how to hide.

In the rural areas near Xujiagou, this is a common thing, but it is very troublesome for Xu Lei.

In order to reduce losses, after feeding in the evening, he had to spend a lot of effort to drive more than 4,000 firewood chickens he raised into the chicken coop. Then he searched around in the peach forest to find fish that had missed the net.

The reason for doing this is very simple. There is a big difference between large-scale free-range firewood chickens and ordinary farmers' home farming, and everything must be careful!

There is a saying that goes: tens of millions of dollars in property, but fur is not counted.

There are many things to pay attention to when raising chickens in rural areas: epidemic prevention, keeping heat and ventilation in the chicken house, feeding vitamins, preventing stress during thunder, and easily turning crazy after being exposed to rain...

In short, as long as a chicken has abnormalities, it needs to be isolated immediately, otherwise it will easily cause large-scale infection.

If you are not careful, maybe a large number of chili chickens will die overnight.

In addition, this Taoyuan is close to the back mountain. At night, firewood chickens live on trees and can easily attract weasels, pigs and badgers to prey on them. Even if he brings the old yellow dog at home to vigil, use all cages, traps, and traps, it cannot be completely eliminated.

Every now and then, chicken feathers and bones are always found somewhere in Taolin, which makes Xu Lei’s teeth itchy, but he can’t do anything about it.

There are also magpies steal eggs. This guy is very cunning. He falls into the peach woods when people are not careful. He pecks through a small hole in the ground, eats nearly half of them and picks them up and flies away. Therefore, Xu Lei often finds empty egg shells in the nearby woods.

It took only a few months for him to take over the chicken farm. He could be said to be worried and almost became half a chicken farmer. He had never slept well at night.

Xu Lei’s breeding was a pure accident... He studied in a third-rate college in the province. After graduation, he found a garment factory as a warehouse manager in a city in the south.

One day when I was at work, I suddenly received a call from home.

My father went into the mountain to get walnuts, fell off the tree, and was rescued in the county hospital.

The news was like a bolt from the blue. Xu Lei was completely confused at the time and rushed to the manager's office to quit his job and inform him of the reason.

According to the general process, you must quit your job at least one month in advance, and the work you are on hand must be handed over.

Because the incident happened suddenly, Xu Lei felt that he was in a loss and planned to get a month's salary less.

But the manager was quite humane. After learning the reason why Xu Lei quit his job, he passed directly. He also called the finance department and settled the salary in advance.

Going home... When he was standing outside the ICU ward, Xu Lei was almost stunned and could not believe the facts.

Fortunately, two uncles and brothers helped, it was the hardest time.

My father fell from a tree and was found too late. In addition, he was delayed on the way to the hospital, and there were more than 100 milliliters of cerebral hemorrhage.

I spent more than 40 days in the hospital and spent nearly 100,000 yuan.

Xu Lei had just worked for a few months and saved less than 10,000 yuan. The house he had just bought in the city, and even part of the down payment was borrowed. He was not at all well-off at all, so he only forced to raise 30,000 yuan.

The family had some savings, but his father Xu Qingshan invested in the construction of the orchard.

Xu Qingshan is a very anxious temper and has a stubborn mind. He is particularly impulsive when doing anything, and does not consider the consequences.

Take the contracting of more than 20 acres of mountain land, Xu Lei and his mother clearly opposed it. However, Xu Qingshan didn't listen to anyone, and after he decided, he couldn't take it back.

He secretly signed a contract with the village, which lasted 30 years and cost 200 yuan per acre of land.

In Xu Qingshan's opinion, he has taken a big advantage: in recent years, the price of fruits has been very high, and planting more than 20 acres of peach trees can earn at least 70,000 to 80,000 a year.

You can also raise free-range firewood chickens in the orchard, and have an additional income.

The idea is good, the reality is cruel, and planting fruit trees is far less simple than imagined.

Because he did not understand technical management, Xu Qingshan relied on his old experience in planting fruit trees.

The peach trees are in constant condition in the second year of planting, and they are blooming vigorously, but they grow in large quantities. Many peach leaves turn yellow, and they can't find the reason... It's hard to reach the harvest season, and the peaches have a lot of black spots and cannot sell for the price.

In addition to the chicken plague in the province last year, the price of firewood chickens has been falling all the way. When it was the cheapest, a firewood chicken weighing more than two pounds could only be sold for more than ten yuan. More than 4,000 firewood chickens are mostly cheap, and they can't even cover the feed, let alone labor costs.

Xu Qingshan has not earned a penny for more than two years since contracting the mountain. He has spent all his savings in his family and borrowed tens of thousands of yuan from relatives and friends. This has caused many villagers to talk and make strange things behind their backs.

My father's hospitalization expenses and the continuous investment in the orchard, now he owes more than 100,000 foreign debts, which is heavy on Xu Lei's shoulders.

Xu Qingshan delayed too long after cerebral hemorrhage, and his surgery was not well recovered. He was still lying in bed for most of the months after being discharged from the hospital, and someone had to serve him every day.

Xu's mother was busy all day long with her husband and couldn't handle the orchard.

Xu Lei originally planned to package the chicken farm and Taoyuan to transfer it to someone else, but he couldn't find anyone to take over. He had no choice but to hold on and wait until the batch of firewood chickens were sold out before he could talk about it.

He patrols the entire Taoyuan with his headlight and locks a few chili chickens in the chicken coop. Sure enough, Xu Lei breathes a sigh of relief and rushes to the residence in his semi-wet clothes.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, with the rumbling thunder above my head.

As soon as he walked to the door, he suddenly felt something and turned his head to look at a big poplar tree not far away: there were two black shadows on the branches of the poplar tree, mixed with a low giggle, it was the Chai Chicken.

Because the location is too high and the darkness and smooth trees, Xu Lei could not climb the tree, so he could only find a bamboo pole to knock on the branches.

Several times in succession, finally drove two firewood chickens down.

Before I could breathe a sigh of relief, boom! A dull thunder suddenly sounded above my head!

A ray of light fell, and an egg-sized object flashed in the light. Before Xu Lei could see clearly, his head was hit hard.

It's not possible to get close to the big tree on rainy days... This is the only thought before he fell into a coma.

...

I don’t know how long it took, Xu Lei became aware.

The limbs were numb and stiff, and the brain seemed to be hit hard by a hammer, making it painful like a heart-wrenching pain. Countless messy messages came in, almost surging their minds until they exploded.

He barely opened his eyes, and it was pitch black all around him, with a faint dim light illuminating, very blurry, as if an old photo was eroded by time.

My head hurts more and more, and even breathing becomes difficult.

After adapting for two minutes, I could barely see the scenery in front of me: a man was lying half apart on the sandy land a few meters away, motionless.

This is... Xu Lei suddenly felt extremely terrifying in his heart.

The man on the ground... looks exactly like him! And he seems to have turned into a dry tree! The surroundings are covered with gray, and the existence of Taoyuan cannot be seen, and even the lights in the prefecture house are gone.

What a hell place this is...

Dreaming must be dreaming, wake up!

Xu Lei shook his head hard, the information in his mind became more and more messy, and the scene in front of him suddenly changed...

He dragged his wet body and barely sat up from the ground.

The rain became heavier and the cool breeze blew on his body. Xu Lei couldn't help but shivered.

I was struck by lightning just now... I had hallucinations?!

Xu Lei rubbed his swollen brain and comforted himself.

A text suddenly appeared in my mind: The druid wood heart space has been parasitized successfully, and he is establishing a blood contract with the host.

Druid, space, what the hell?

Xu Lei became more and more panicked, and only felt his scalp numb. He felt the existence of the strange tree again, as if he had a sense of touch connected to him.

The rain was still falling, and Xu Lei did not dare to stay outside and staggered towards his residence.

The big yellow dog in the doghouse at the door was immediately alarmed and quickly stood up. It was about to scream when it smelled the familiar smell, and waved its tail, and then lay back into the nest.

Xu Lei changed his wet clothes and felt even more painful in his brain. He even wanted to split in half.

The door was clearly closed and through the color steel wall panel, but pictures kept popping up in Xu Lei's mind: a dry tree stood on the sandy land, lonely and sad...

The picture is very clear, as if he had seen it with his own eyes, and he could even clearly count how many branches there were on the trunk.

This illusion is too real... I don't know what language to describe it.

In a trance, another paragraph of text appeared in my mind:

The blood contract was successfully established, and the druid wood heart fit was only 10%. The tree body was seriously lacking in nutrition. Please provide sufficient energy as soon as possible to increase the fit to more than 60%.

Otherwise, the druid wood heart will dry up and the host will die.

After the mission is completed, a new druid will be born.

Druid Wood Heart, Druid Worm, Blood Deed, Fitness... What the hell are they?

Or hallucinations... Could it be that I was mentally abnormal after being struck by lightning, so I would fantasize about these messy things?

Until now, Xu Lei still thinks that there are hallucinations in his mind and the sequelae of being struck by lightning.

He has experienced hallucinations before.

When he was a child, Xu Lei and a few naughty children in the village caught a big carp in the river, so he secretly stewed it while the adults were not at home. One child even picked a handful of wild mushrooms and put them in to pick up freshness.

As a result, they all fell into a coma after drinking fish soup, and many colorful villains danced in front of them, as well as various strange scenes...

Then he was discovered by an adult and took a carriage to the town health center to hang a rebate.

Later, several people realized that they had hallucinations when they were eating poisonous mushrooms.

Xu Lei is familiar with the word druid and has also been exposed to it when playing games before. In Greek mythology, it means the goddess of the forest, living in the oak forest.

In addition, in many literary works, druids usually appear as a drape.
To be continued...